Quantum History
A New Materialist Philosophy
- Publisher's listprice GBP 20.00
-
9 555 Ft (9 100 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 13% (cc. 1 242 Ft off)
- Discounted price 8 313 Ft (7 917 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
9 555 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350566422
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 240x166x38 mm
- Weight 664 g
- Language English 1127
Categories
Short description:
Slavoj Zizek's treatise on how insights from the field of Quantum Physics allow a total re-invention of how we think about history.
MoreLong description:
A panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History, Slavoj Zizek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality and political possibility.
Taking up Lenin's challenge to radically reconsider materialism in the wake of each big scientific discovery, and rejecting the recent vogue for giving a vague spiritualist spin to wave mechanics, Zizek embraces the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics with characteristic erudition and verve. Drawing on the central themes of the holographic universe, non-commutativity and the collapse of superpositions, Zizek evolves a quantum-inspired ontology which reinvents the historical materialism of Hegel and Heidegger - and compels a brutal, often darkly funny, inquisition into the chances of radical emancipatory acts today.
Quantum History takes the reader from the absolute contradiction of the primordial void through quantum oscillations to our ordinary reality, weaving in Lacan and Deleuze, Rovelli and Schelling, opera, cinema, sex and war. Zizek is at his sharpest, saddest, most provocative best as he demonstrates that there is no way of extracting ourselves from the texture of history, no neutral position from which the workings of the world can be observed transparently - we must act from a contingent, complex and inscrutable political moment, in sadness and in doubt, but defiantly.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Materialism and Quantum Criticism
I - Universal: Collapse Comes First
1 Why A Hegelian Needs Quantum Mechanics
2 Why Quantum Mechanics Needs Hegel
3 Noncommutativity in the Symbolic and in the (Quantum) Real
II - Particular: From Hegel to Heidegger... and Back
1 Names for Finitude: Hegel, Heidegger, Pippin
2 The Night of the World
3 Heidegger's Politics of Finitude
III - Singular: Politics in a Quantum World
1 The Hologram of Conflicting Universalities
2 Can Artificial Intelligence Really Think?
3 The Politics of Vocation
Variations
Variation 1 - Frozen Beauty: Rovelli, Deleuze and the Stoics
Variation 2 - No Substitute for True Universals
Variation 3 - Pure Voice, Pure Sound: Beethoven, Globokar, Act
Variation 4 - Acts of Reconciliation
Variation 5 - Moderately Conservative Communism
Variation 6 - The Painted Void
Variation 7 - The Many Monsters of Cinema
Variation 8 - Sexual Superpositions
Variation 9 - Make The Kitchen Maid King
Conclusion: The Hunger to Be Something
